Therefore I find a compelling reason to write something revealing, a little, my private and natural self—to offer something that must in the future be taken into consideration by any who would claim to know me. I am only too aware of the ways in which inclination and supposition will fill whatever spaces in this world, or a life, are left vacant. And so I say again: I myself am the author of this document; it has no other formal persona, as my books of poems certainly do.
